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Subsiding   /səbsˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Subsiding

noun
1.
A gradual sinking to a lower level.  Synonyms: settling, subsidence.


Subside

verb
(past & past part. subsided; pres. part. subsiding)
1.
Wear off or die down.  Synonym: lessen.
2.
Sink to a lower level or form a depression.
3.
Sink down or precipitate.  Synonym: settle.
4.
Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.  Synonym: sink.  "She subsided into the chair"



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"Subsiding" Quotes from Famous Books



... hours Glory's impatience became feverish, and as soon as the first of the evening papers appeared she sent out for it. The panic was subsiding, and the people who had gone to the outskirts were returning to the city in troops, looking downcast and ashamed. No news of Father Storm. Inquiry that morning at Scotland Yard elicited the fact that nothing had yet been heard of him. There ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... category of what are called young men of genius,—men who are the pride of their sisters and the glory of their grandmothers,—men of whom unheard-of things are expected, till after long preparation comes a portentous failure, and then they are forgotten; subsiding into indifferent apprentices ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... he dared, Sunni let himself down branch by branch till he reached the level of the wall. Presently he stood upon it in the subsiding rustle of the leaves, breathless and trembling.. He seemed to have disturbed every living thing within a hundred yards. A score of bats flew up from the wall crevices, a flying fox struck him on the shoulder, at his feet ...
— The Story of Sonny Sahib • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... been a wide-awake chap to make that story,' said Martin Cannister, subsiding to a ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... of Jericho (PUTNAM), a novel of American stage life which I should suppose comes as near to being a true picture as such stories can. She derives her title from the convenient habit of the desert rose of detaching itself from uncongenial or exhausted soil, subsiding into a compact mass and travelling before the wind to more profitable surroundings. It will be admitted that the author has at least hit upon a picturesque metaphor for a touring company, which on this analogy becomes a very garden of (Jericho) roses. Actually, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 • Various


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